Hillbilly Heroin whisperer JD Vance gets a prime slot at the NYT to tell us all how:

As a working-class, conservative white kid, I was supposed to hate him.

…but that black guy in the white house does have a nice family so maybe he wasn’t all bad y’know? Oh, and those silly liberals keep talking about racism! He finally wraps up with this gobsmacking special bit…

On Jan. 20, the political side of my brain will breathe a sigh of relief at Mr. Obama’s departure. I will hope for better policy from the new administration, a health reform package closer to my ideological preferences, and a new approach to foreign policy.

But the child who so desperately wanted an American dream, with a happy family at its core will feel something different. For at a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I’ll miss him, and the example he set.

So thank God we have some fucking TRUMP in there to kill health care and screw over all my friends and family in East Ohio, but Obama was a nice example like you see on the Hallmark Channel.

I fucking can’t. I just can’t.